Releasing "Spiritual Wars"

This Machine Kills Archons a music project of songwriter Rob Warrington
This Machine Kills Archons

New EP ‘STIR UP THE WATER’ out on 12 July 2023.

The EP includes the tracks:

‘Spiritual Wars’, ‘Feel the Truth’, ‘Clement’ and ‘Beyond the Light’.

Background

This Machine Kills Archons started playing and putting out music in 2020 - created as the moniker of singer/songwriter R.P. Warrington.

In 2022 Gonzalo Carrera joined the band - a Spanish keyboard player who has performed in several progressive rock bands. Gonzalo is best known as a former member of the British progressive rock bands Landmarq and Karnataka. He has also worked with former members of Hawkwind, Jethro Tull, Yes, Supertramp and ELO.

The band are performing at the ‘Jam for Freedom’ festival on 4th August alongside acts such as The Cream of Clapton Band, Joseph Arthur, Jimmy Levy and Five Times August.

Music

Referenced as psychedelic Beach Boys meets Roxy Music - This Machine Kills Archons have been described as having “a strong 70's vibe…Bolanesque” and “crooning Beatlesy”. One radio station called it “mellow rock 'n' roll road music”.

A first EP was released in Nov 2020 called STRANGE TIMES AHEAD. The EP compiled of 3 songs – ‘Strange Times’, ‘Iron Mountain’ and ‘Computer Brain’. The songs got radio airplay and positive feedback from radio DJ’s and music reviewers from across England, Australia, Europe, America and Canada.

A follow up EP ‘LEGAL FICTION GOSPEL TRUTH’ comprised of 6 songs – including ‘God Above God’ and ‘Get Out’. The songs explored concepts about the real nature of what it is to be a free spirit – and not the artificial person of the unnatural, ‘dead’ world. The new batch of songs carry on the themes of the previous work.

Concepts

The name ‘This Machine Kills Archons’ is a take on Woody Guthrie’s ‘labelled’ guitar statement – replacing ‘fascists’ with ‘archons’. Guthrie described fascists as a small rich elite of gangsters who set out to "rob the world". Archons – from the Greek meaning ruler – could be described in the same way, malevolent, sadistic beings who control the earth, as well as many of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

The songs hark back to the protest movement – a fight against injustice and attack on the mind of the common people – the exploitation of good will, turning people against each other and destroying the actual spirit and soul of what is it to be free.